On March 26, 2016,
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by North Florida Clinical Hypnotherapy

Lose weight with hypnosis! Excerpt from www.Oprah.com Close your eyes. Imagine your food cravings floating away. Imagine a day of eating only what’s good for you. Imagine hypnosis actually helping you lose weight—because the news is: It does. Harvard Medical School psychotherapist Jean Fain gives you ten hypnotic suggestions to try right now. When I […]

Lose weight with hypnosis!

Excerpt from www.Oprah.com

Close your eyes. Imagine your food cravings floating away. Imagine a day of eating only what’s good for you. Imagine hypnosis actually helping you lose weight—because the news is: It does. Harvard Medical School psychotherapist Jean Fain gives you ten hypnotic suggestions to try right now.
When I tell people how I make much of my living—as a psychotherapist hypnotizing people slim—they inevitably ask: Does it work? My answer usually brightens their eyes with something between excitement and incredulity.

Most people, including my colleagues at Harvard Medical School, where I teach hypnosis, don’t realize that adding trance to your weight loss efforts can help you lose more weight and keep it off longer.

Hypnosis predates carb and calorie counting by a few centuries, but this age-old attention-focusing technique has yet to be embraced wholeheartedly as an effective weight loss strategy.

Until recently, there has been scant scientific evidence to support the legitimate claims of respected hypnotherapists, and a glut of pie-in-the-sky promises from their problem cousins, stage hypnotists, hasn’t helped.

Even after a persuasive mid-nineties reanalysis of 18 hypnotic studies showed that psychotherapy clients who learned self-hypnosis lost twice as much weight as those who didn’t (and, in one study, kept it off two years after treatment ended), hypnotherapy has remained a well-kept weight loss secret.

Unless hypnosis has happily compelled you or someone you know to buy a new, smaller wardrobe, it may be hard to believe that this mind-over-body approach could help you get a handle on eating.

Seeing is definitely believing.

So see for yourself. You don’t have to be entranced to learn some of the invaluable lessons that hypnosis has to teach about weight loss. The ten mini-concepts that follow contain some of the diet-altering suggestions my weight management clients receive in group and individual hypnotherapy.

1. The answer lies within. Hypnotherapists believe you have everything you need to succeed. You don’t really need another crash diet or the latest appetite suppressant. Slimming is about trusting your innate abilities, as you do when you ride a bicycle. You may not remember how scary it was the first time you tried to bike, but you kept practicing until you could ride automatically, without thought or effort. Losing weight may seem similarly beyond you, but it’s just a matter of finding your balance.

2. Believing is seeing. People tend to achieve what they think they can achieve. That even applies to hypnosis. Subjects tricked into believing they could be hypnotized (for example, as the hypnotist suggested they’d see red, he flipped the switch on a hidden red bulb) demonstrated increased hypnotic responsiveness. The expectation of being helped is essential. Let me suggest that you expect your weight loss plan to work.

3. Accentuate the positive. Negative, or aversive, suggestions, like “Doughnuts will sicken you,” work for a while, but if you want lasting change, you’ll want to think positive. The most popular positive hypnotic suggestion was devised by doctors Herbert Spiegel and David Spiegel, a father- son hypnotherapy team: “For my body, too much food is damaging. I need my body to live. I owe my body respect and protection.” I encourage clients to write their own upbeat mantras. One 50-year-old mother who lost 50-plus pounds repeats daily: “Unnecessary food is a burden on my body. I’m going to shed what I don’t need.”

On April 6, 2010,
in Uncategorized,
by North Florida Clinical Hypnotherapy

Public release date: 8-Feb-2006 By Laura Oates, CBS 11 News Reporter Eating healthy is a good start if you’re trying to lose weight. But could hypnosis be another powerful tool? Doctors across the country are using it more and more to help people lose weight. Beth Fredericks’s story is a familiar one. She was 30 […]

Public release date: 8-Feb-2006

By Laura Oates, CBS 11 News Reporter

Eating healthy is a good start if you’re trying to lose weight. But could hypnosis be another powerful tool? Doctors across the country are using it more and more to help people lose weight.

Beth Fredericks’s story is a familiar one. She was 30 pounds overweight and tried every diet under the sun.

“I look at fruits and vegetables more. They are much more appealing to me,” said Fredericks.

And this isn’t hocus-pocus. Studies have shown, when used by a trained therapist, hypnosis can help patients lose weight and keep it off.

Fain teaches other psychotherapists at the Cambridge Health Alliance in Boston. She says hypnosis is only part of the ongoing therapy. The other part is helping a patient understand why they’re overeating.

“The most important first lesson is learning that it’s not an instant cure–that they have some responsibility for their change,” said Jean Fain, Harvard Medical School.

Fredericks believes the conscious therapy helps her learn how much to eat, while the subconscious suggestions help her make good choices.

“The suggestion is in my head. I don’t have to do it so much, it’s kind of automatic,” said Fredericks.

As for the results, here’s some food for thought: Fredericks has slowly lost around 15 pounds, and says she never felt like she was on a diet.

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